Customs Scores Again–PhP42 Million Hot Rice and Sugar Seized

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) unrelenting campaign against smuggling has again caused the seizure of Php42 million worth of illegally imported sugar and rice by alert operatives of the Port…

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11 Charged for Sugar Smuggling by BOC

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) unrelenting campaign to file cases against suspected smugglers and to eventually put them behind bars has once again placed 11 people, seven (7) of them…

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BOC Slaps Smuggling Charges Against Six Traders and a Broker

For violating Section 3601, in relation to Section 101 and Section 2530 of the Tariffs and Customs Code of the Philippines (TCCP) including Executive Order No 156 banning the importation…

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Three Charged for Smuggling by BOC

Two traders and one licensed customs broker were included in the growing list of persons formally charged by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) today (August 1, 2013), when Customs officials…

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PhP 1.6 M Misdeclared Plywood Products Seized by BOC

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) heightened monitoring of plywood products importations to protect the local plywood industry and consumers has caused the seizure of two (2) forty-footer container vans of…

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BOC Foils PhP 7.5 M Agri Products Smuggling Attempt

The Bureau of Customs' (BOC) unrelenting campaign against smuggling has once again caused the seizures of three (3) forty footer container vans of illegally imported fresh potatoes and carrots worth…

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BOC Charges a Trader and a Broker for Peking Duck Smuggling

After their foiled attempt to illegally slip two forty footer container vans of Pigeons, Peking Duck, Chicken and Piglet from China in October 15, 2012, a trader and his broker…

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BOC Busts Endangered Marine Products Smuggling Attempt

Php 10 Million worth of various dried marine products declared as endangered species by the government like the Manta Ray and Sting Ray, which arrived at the Sub-Port of Manila…

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Two Traders Charged for 19M Onion and Garlic Smuggling Attempt

Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon today led the filing of smuggling charges at the Department of Justice (DOJ) against traders Rady Garbosa and Carlos R. Uy for attempting to smuggle Php19…

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BOC Stops 40M Hot Peking Ducks Smuggle Try

The Bureau of Customs' (BOC) state of the art x-ray machines continue to provide its operational and strategic advantage in the government's anti-smuggling campaign when it once again caused the…

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